CRM 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Crown Attorney, Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, Pantyhose
18 Mar 2017
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The court room is a symbolically organized public space that is designed to reproduce, through repeated visible rituals, a collective obedience to political authority: reproduction of political authority. In symbolically organized space: through repeated visible rituals. Wedding example: community type of thing, public matter, 2 witnesses sign the public record. Specific clothes and food: clothes have all sorts of meaning, the wedding dress -> more formal and special, sign of respect. Schedule -> things happen in order: the official -> legally recognized official. It pulls up the legitimacy side of this. Criminal trail: trial potent rituals of legitimatization in western democracies. It isn"t to just determine the facts but the entire process is designed to create and re-create the state"s legitimacy -- our collective submission acceptance of state"s authority: rule of law. Indicates that the judge is not a normal person but embodies the state: the judge is looking down and oversees the ritual happening.
